Vehicle-wheel with demountable rim.



R. S. BRYANT.

VEHICLE W HEEL WITH DEMOUNTABLE RIM.

APPLICATION FILED NOV-13.1914.

1 PatentedSept.14, 1915;

TAME/J- UNITED STATES PATENT OE IoE.

RICHARD S. BRYANT, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOB TO THE STANDARD WELDING COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

VEHICLE-WHEEL WITH DEMOUNTABLE RIM.-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD S. BRYANT, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cleveland; county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Vehicle-Wheels with Deof which the following is the principle of the invenvention being herein explained and the best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it "from other inventions.

In connection with demountable tire-sup- I porting rims of the kind now very generally used on automobiles, a characteristic feature of construction is the driver, as 1t s called, whereby such demountable rim is held against circumferential movement on the folly, or rather felly-band. The wedging or clamping means, of one kind or another, which are used to secure such rim laterally in place on the wheel felly, cannot of course be relied on to prevent this circumferential movement, and it has accordingly been the practice to weld or rivet a transverse plateon the inner face of the rim and to similarly weld or rivet two spaced plates on the outer face of the fellyband, the distance between such last-named plates being just suflicient to accommodate the plate on the rim. Usually, moreover, the valve-stem aperture in the rim passes through the attached plate, and the aperture in the folly designed to register therewith hence is located between the two plates on such felly band. Thus these driving plates serve at thesame time to non-rotatably secure the rim to the telly band, and as a means for securing registration of these apertures.

The object of the present invention is to avoid the necessity of welding separate plates onto the felly band for use in the aforesaid connection, by stampingor embossing lugs of proper form and disposition to serve the same purpose, it being rememberedthat a considerable strain may be imposed on such lugs.

'To the accompli and related ends, said invention consists of the means hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in'the claims.

The annexed drawing and the following decated by the line viously explained, cannot hment of the foregoing Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 14:, 1915. Application filed November 13, 1914;. Serial No. 571,876. i

scription set forth ,in' detail certain mecha- ,ments, with a tire-supporting rim shown mounted thereon; Fig. 2 is a transverse section of such band and rim, the latter being illustrated in connection with the felly proper, the plane of the section being indi- 22, Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a section similar to Fig. 2, but taken on the plane indicated by the line 3-3, Fig. 1; Fig.4 is a perspective view of a section of the felly band by itself; and Fig. 5 is a. similar perspective view of the inside of the tire-supportinr rim adapted to be mounted upon such felly band.

The general form and construction of felly band 1 require no remark, such band having, as usual, on its one side a beveled flange 2 adapted to receive the corresponding edge of thetiie-supporting' rim 8, the latter here illustrated as designed for the re ception of a straight-sided tire. Such rim is secured in place sidewise on the telly-band by the use of one or more wedge members 4,

a plurality of these being intended to be used in the construction illust .ated. Such wedges are forced between the ba other edge of such rim by means of clampnuts 5 threaded on bolts 6 that extend transversely of the felly7. as willbe readily understood, These wedges, however, as prebe relied upon to retain the rim against the tendency to rotate around the felly band under driving conditions. The rim is accordingly provided, preferably at the point where the flangestem aperture 8 driving-plate or etecl to its inner integral with the lug 9 that is welded or rivface so as to be substantially- I rim. (See Figs. 1 and 5.) Instead, howevenof similarly welding orriveting spaced plates or lugs onthe felly band to engage or ing plate on the rim, I stamp up or emboss the metal of the band on opposite sides of the corresponding valve-stem aperture -10 in is formed therein, with a 9 interlock with this drivsuch band so as to form lugs 11 of the form clearly shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 4, said lugs being identical in form but oppositely dis.-

posed with reference to such aperture. The dies, whereby these lugs are formed, are con structed to cut entirely through-the band on the transverse edge of the lug nearest the hole, and the 'metal displaced or forced radially outward in amount approximately equal to the thickness of the band, thereby .providing an abru t enga ing face or shoulder 12, which is a apted o engage with the opposed face of the driving plate on the rim, when the latter is mounted on the felly band. The die, however, does not cut the metal along the other edge 13 of the section thus upset to form the lug but simply deforms it, and similarly" simply deforms or stretches the metal along the two .ends 14 of the lug,

so that such lug remains integrally attached to the rim along. all three such last named -or riveted, as need not be further explained.

'following claims or the equivalent of such stated means be employed.

time the lugs, being directly stamped out of the material of the band, not only economize in metal, but permit of much more rapid and j.

economical manufacture than where separate plates require to be located and thus welded Other modes of applying the principle of my invention may be employed instead of the one explained, change being made as regards the mechanism herein disclosed, provided the means stated by' any of the- I therefore particularly point out and distinctly claim as my invention 1. As an article of manufacture, a band for.vehicle wheels of the demountable rim class. sai-d band being provided with two similar, spaced driving lugs, stamped up from and integral with the material of said i band, said lugs" being severed from said band along their iuxtaposed edges so as to form abrupt shoulders, substantially as described.

2. As an article of manufacture, a band for vehicle wheels of the demountable rim class, said band being provided with two 6 similar, spaced driving lugs, stamped up.

from and integralwith the material of said band, said lugs being severed from said hand along their juxtaposed edges so as to formabrupt shoulders, and remaining attached to said band along their remaining edges, substantiallv as described.

The driving strain received on the 3.- In a vehicle wheel, the combination with the wheel-folly and the folly-band thereon; of a demountable rim adapted tobe fitted around said fellv-band and rovided with a driving plate on its inner ace, said felly band being rovided with two spaced driving lugs a apted to interlock with said plate, said lugs being stampedu from and integral with the material of sai band, substantially as described.

4. In a vehicle wheel, the combination vided with a driving plate on its inner face,

with the wheel-felly and the felly-band.

said felly band being provided with two a similar spaced driving lugs, stamped up from and integral with the material of said band, said lugs being severed from said band along their juxtaposed. edges so as to form abrupt shoulders, and remaining at tached to said band along their remaining edges, substantially as described.

6. As an article of manufacture, a band for vehicle wheelsof the demountable rim class, said band being provided with a driving lug, stamped up from and integral with the material of said band, said lug having a transverse edge severed from said band so as to form an abrupt shoulder, substantially as described.

7. As an article of manufacture, a band for vehicle wheels of the demountable rim class, said band being provided with a driving lug, stamped up from and integral with the material of said band. said lug having a transverse ed e severed from said band so as to form an abrupt shoulder, and remaining attached to said band along its remaining edges substantially as described.

8. In a vehicle wheel. the combination with thewheel-felly and the folly-band thereon; of a demountable rim adapted to be fitted around said fellv-band. one of said members being provided with a driving plate on its juxtaposed face and the other member being provided with two spaced driving lugs adapted to interlock with said Dlate, said-lugs being stamped up fromand integralwith'the material of said member, substantially as described.

9. Inavehicle wheel, the combination with the wheel-folly and the folly-bend thereon; of a demountable rim adapted to be juxtaposed edgesv so as to form abrupt fitted around said fell -band,- one of said shoulders, substantially as described. 10 a members being provi ed with a driving Signed by me, this 10th day of November,

plate on' its juxtaposed face and the other 1914.

-'='5 member being provided with two spaced RICHARD BRYANT. i driving lugs, stamped up from and integral Attested by with the material of said member, said lugs V; WILLIAMS,

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